Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.

Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.

Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.

And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe.

If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life, ' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

I've always loved a challenge.

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.